Reading Skills for Today's Adults (RSTA) is an online collection of leveled readings addressing various topics of interest to adult learners. It's a well-known resource in adult education, but some don't know that a group of teachers worked collaboratively to build engaging instructional supplements...
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Culturally responsive and sustaining teaching (CRST) requires an ideological shift in practice that uses students' backgrounds and cultures as a vehicle for learning to promote and produce academic excellence. In 2020 and 2021, 44% of adult learners in the United States identified as Hispanic/Latinx...
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The ELA center is excited to announce the release of Take Action! Civic Engagement, a new social studies unit plan developed in collaboration with Brooke Machado. In this unit, students are introduced to the different branches of government, learn about their government representatives through web...
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Women's Army Corps Officers Inspecting the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/531249 Black History Month is celebrated each February to acknowledge the significant contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history. A theme is...
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Monday is coming! Every Sunday afternoon that familiar anxious feeling arrives along with thoughts of how you should have woken up early on Saturday or Sunday morning and dedicated two hours to lesson planning as you intended. Or perhaps you should have forgone time spent with family or simply...
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EBRI PD in 2022-23 Learn how to support your students at all grade level equivalents (GLEs) with Evidence-Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) tools and strategies through the following PD opportunities. Need the big picture? Read To the Point: WIOA, EBRI, and STAR. Want some details? Read more about...
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The SABES ELA C&I PD Center is delighted to welcome Karen Greaves to its team, as instruction and PD specialist. She joins the director, Evonne Peters, in the ELA center's new home at World Education in Boston. Karen comes to us from the Boston Public Schools Department of Adult Education. During...
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Did you know that there used to be such a large deaf population on Martha's Vineyard that the entire community used a home-grown sign language? Being deaf or hearing were both normal. (Curious? Read The Island that Spoke by Hand – Uncovering the history of Deaf culture on Martha’s Vineyard and The...
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It's September 2021! We asked teachers what they are—or will be—working on in these first weeks of classes, the strengths they are bringing to this new year, and what they are looking forward to. The two biggest themes to emerge were 1) how happy teachers are to be going back to in-person classes...
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When you return to classes after April break, try the latest Teaching Idea from Facing History and Ourselves: Accountability, Justice, and Healing After Derek Chauvin's Trial. And in early June, join us for PD led by Facing History's Charles FitzGibbon: Facing History: Equipping Ourselves and Our...
